Lawyers Association For Constitution writes to Chief Justice of India Surya Kant raising concerns over the manner in which Noida DM Medha Roopam's petition was listed.
The Association alleges that her petition was "specially assigned to a particular bench" despite the prevailing roster.
Highlighting that Medha Roopam is the daughter of the Chief Election Commissioner, the Association says preferential treatment to a matter sets a wrong precedent.
"The special listing before a particular bench has not enhanced confidence in the judicial process," the letter says.
The Association also flags the muting of the live procedings.
The issue is regarding the petition filed by Medha Roopam challenging the Allahabad High Court's order criticising her for ordering the detention of a student under the National Security Act in connection with the Noida workers' protest, and asking her to pay Rs 5 lakh compensation.
The Election Commission of India is under fire like never before.
The SIR has struck 13 crore names off draft rolls, putting the EC at the centre of intense public debate over its role in deciding who gets to vote — and who doesn’t.
HOWEVER, what nobody knew: through that same period, some of the sharpest questions were being asked from inside.
Out today, after months of work. Our #ExpressInvestigation 🧵
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27 lakh voters have been deleted
Only 138 of them got a chance to get a tribunal hearing. And 136 / 138 were put back in the voting list.
That means most deleted voters are likely genuine voters but no one will hear their appeal in time for voting.
Yes. I don’t believe in god .. but my mother believed in her god . Who am i to deny her .. the right to be buried according to her belief. This is the basic respect we give one another. Will you Hate mongering monsters understand this #justasking
After our Aland candidate exposed the fraud, the local EC official filed an FIR, but the CID investigation has been - BLOCKED by CEC.
The Karnataka CID has written 18 letters in 18 months requesting all incriminating evidence - BLOCKED by CEC.
The Karnataka EC has sent multiple requests to ECI to comply with the investigation - BLOCKED by CEC.
Details of destination IP, device ports, and OTP trails have been withheld - BLOCKED by CEC.
If this vote theft had not been caught and the 6,018 votes had been deleted, our candidate could have lost the election.
CEC Gyanesh Kumar - stop giving excuses. Release the evidence to the Karnataka CID. NOW.
Adani is MISUSING a court order to get 130+ youtube videos blocked.
He claims that all these videos are defaming him, when in fact most of them are just factually reporting news about him. I will not accept this ridiculous censorship demand and will challenge this in the court.
One the richest, most powerful & well connected businessman in the world is fighting small independent you-tubers. A man who owns one of India's biggest media conglomerates is discovering that news content creators with one camera - broadcasting from one room - have one thing ....that money cant buy.
During India's First Emergency (besides the notable exception of @IndianExpress) - it were the smaller independent publications that stood their ground & gave Indira Gandhi a tough time. Publications like #Himmat & #Pratap didn't bend despite hundreds of journalists being sent to jail & courts being a mute spectator.
Today, 50yrs down the line - as history repeats itself, we at @thedeshbhakt are proud to keep that tradition alive along with a select group of individuals. The tradition of questioning people in power & not bending to money & muscle.
On the 16th of September - a Delhi Court passed an ex-parte injunction order against nine journalists & organisations (including @paranjoygt & @t_d_h_nair) who had been regularly reporting on Adani.
While such orders have become mundane in New India - what set this apart was a 'John Doe' on the 10th defendant. This basically allowed Adani to make a list of people that IT THOUGHT was making 'defamatory content' against it - these people were not even NAMED in the defamation suit.
Now independent youtubers & publications such as @ravish_journo, @ajitanjum, @newslaundry, @dhruv_rathee, @abhisar_sharma and yours truly have been given 36 hours to delete over 200 pieces of content - without any opportunity to contest this order.
Whatever your political leanings may be - know that this is now beyond politics and this silencing will impact everyone.
We take this move as a compliment and this is testament to the power & credibility that small independent Digital Publications have been able to garner. We thank each and every member of the Deshbhakt family for their trust and support.
We do not know when OR IF the higher courts will reverse this alarming order - but we will carry on our mission to punch up, question everything & fight for our Democracy.
As for the legal angle - there is a laundry list of businessmen who tried to silence journalists using the courts - usually it didn't end very well for them.